Dont Croak

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 63, 27 November 1886, Page 5 (Supplement)

Dont Croak

No, no, friend reader whatever other weak and unmanly things you <iv, don't croak. It's a bad habit, a usuless habit, a pernicious habit, and, in a period like the present, positively sinful. If times are hard, croakiug won't better them. If business is dull, work the harder, and smile the more. Your neighbours will thank you for it; your wife and children will thank you for it. It is impossible to ruin a man who works hard, is always cheerful, and won't believe himself ruined. If a man imagines every straw that lies in his way an impassible barrier, or> when his path becomes really difficult, sits down on the nearest kerbstone and goes to blubbering over his " bad luck," instead of exerting himself bravely and cheerfully to surmount the obstacle and change the " luck" he cannot, of course, expect to succeed. Such a man not only fails himself, but discourages his neighbours, and help to pull them down. Croaking is as contagious as the measles, and twice as destructive to manly vigour and health. No man has any more right te introduce the one malady than the other. Society instinctively shuns a sour face and always feels kindly towards a pleasant one j and society ia right. In London recently a gentleman died in great pain shortly after partaking of a lobster salad. At a subsequent investigation the lobster (which was tinned) was found " not guilty," But the report of the analyst is not likely to increase the demand for tinned goods. There was indeed, no trace of any poisonous metal or of any poison, but the lobster was crowded with bacteria — in other words, it was rapidly decomposing. Potted fish it seems, unless it is preserved in oil is liable to speed? putrefaction |in warm weather, and should not be eaten after the day the tin is opened.